Rice Production Worldwide

Bhagirath Chauhan, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Toowoomba, AustraliaKhawar Jabran, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey Gulshan Mahajan, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiāna, India

• Current status, challenges, and opportunities in rice production.- Rice production in China.- Rice production in India.- European rice.- Rice production in Africa.- Rice production in the Americas.- Rice production in Australia.- Rice production systems.- Domestication and development of rice cultivars.- Fertilizer management in rice.- Water management in rice.- Insect herbivores of rice: their natural regulation and ecologically-based management.- Importance and management of rice diseases: a global perspective.- Rice weeds and their management.- Ecology and management of apple snails in rice.- Harvesting, threshing, processing, and products of rice.- Rice physiology.- Role of biotechnology in rice production.